NASA'S Deep Space Climate Observatory Captures The 'Dark Side' Of The Moon As It Flies By Earth

There are times when NASA makes us realise just how much we take the skies for granted.

In a series of images captured by a camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite, NASA showed off the "dark side" of the moon - a view we never have on earth- as it passed by our fully illuminated planet.

The photographs were taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), which is positioned in between the earth and the sun.

The satellite, orbiting one million miles away from earth, is designed to monitor solar winds and around twice a year, it catches the Earth and moon together.

“It is surprising how much brighter Earth is than the moon," Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland noted.

"Our planet is a truly brilliant object in dark space compared to the lunar surface.”